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California Has No Monopoly on Politicized Campuses

John Leo notes in a Minding the Campus piece that the University of Wisconsin is red hot with politics these days. Faculty members are openly siding with the big-labor/anti-Walker forces. Students who disagree hesitate to say so publicly. Thanks to UW professor Donald Downs, a fervent defender of free speech on campus (and Pope Center author), for raising the issue.

George Leef is the the director of editorial content at the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal. He is the author of The Awakening of Jennifer Van Arsdale: A Political Fable for Our Time.
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